Fanny Gulliksson

We shared everything, and my body was your life- my pulse, your hiccup, my breath, your movements. We lived in symbiosis. Then you were born. Our first separation was also the first time we looked at each other. You sought your return to my pulse and breath. We had bought you a crib, but you wanted my pulse and breath. So why should you sleep alone in your bed?

My degree project is about the need to share a space to sleep. Although families have shared sleeping spaces from the dawn of history, sleeping one to a bed and in separate bedrooms was not common in Western societies until the industrial revolution. Today, parents who co-sleep with their newborn babies are a controversial topic with deep social, cultural, and historical roots. It is associated with both danger and safety, autonomy, and dependence.

Through my design process, I have tried to create a place for you between us, among pulses and breaths.

To Vilja